Co – Chairs’: –
Dr Wasim Baqir
Pharmacy Integration Fund
Wasim Baqir is a senior pharmacist from the Pharmacy Integration Programme at NHS England. Prior to this he led the national Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes scheme for NHS England. He currently works across a number of areas (primary care networks, health inequalities, community pharmacy, overprescribing and integrated care systems) supporting the national pharmacy integration programme.
He has a clinical role as lead pharmacist at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust where he supports pharmacy teams, working collaboratively with doctors, nurses, social care and other professionals to develop and test services for patients across Northumberland and North Tyneside. Before this, he was the R&D and quality improvement pharmacist, leading on several projects including Shine: optimising medicines in care homes.
He has a passion for personalised care and shared decision-making; especially in complex situations like care homes and frail elderly. Wasim is a member the Health Foundation’s Q Network and co-chairs the multidisciplinary medicines research group, PRIMM (Prescribing Research in Medicines Management).
Ms Sam Sherrington
Head of Community Nursing, NHS England
Sam is a Registered Nurse, qualified Specialist Practitioner in the home, District Nursing and Nurse Prescriber. Sam is Head of Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020 and Head of Insulin Administration Programme at NHS England and NHS Improvement, having spent a number of years in NHS England national team formerly as Head of Nursing and Midwifery Strategy within the Nursing Directorate and Head of Stakeholder and Cultural Transformation, Future Focused Finance within the Finance Directorate. Previously for eight years, Sam worked for the Northwest Strategic Health Authority, leading the delivery of the Department of Health Non-Medical Prescribing Programme across the region, then nationally for the Department of Health and internationally.
Sam holds a number of national roles, including member of Council National Association for Primary Care and co-chair of European committee Prescribing Research in Medicines Management (PRIMM). Sam is well-published and has won a number of awards, most notably ‘The Eileen Steele Memorial Award for Caring’. Sam holds a MSc Nursing (Cancer), a post graduate Leadership and Management qualification, is a Top Directors NHS Leadership Academy graduate and is ILM level 7 Exec coach and mentor. She is a founding Director of Health and Education Cooperative. She is a board member for Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, Greater Manchester. Sam is CEO of her own healthcare business. She recently joined University of Surrey as an expert advisor to the national evaluation of independent prescribing by therapeutic radiographers and supplementary prescribing by dietitians. In her spare time Sam enjoys time with her young family.
Honorary Secretary: Dr Simon White
Director of Postgraduate Education
Reader in Pharmacy Practice
Simon is a clinical pharmacist who has worked in academia since 2008. He is currently
Director of Postgraduate Education in the School of Pharmacy & Bioengineering at Keele
University and Reader in Pharmacy Practice. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public
Health, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the current Chair of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society’s Conference Practice Research Panel. He supervises PhD students,
DPharm students and undergraduate research project students, as well as teaching on
postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. His research interests are mainly around
medicines usage, especially polypharmacy, pharmacy practice, public health, health services research, and pharmacy education. He is a co-applicant on the PROMPPT project, which is a £2.4m National Institute for Health Research funded research programme to develop and test a clinical pharmacist-led intervention for proactive clinical review of patients taking opioid medicines long-term for persistent, non-cancer pain.
Treasurer:
Dr Margaret Bermingham BSc(Pharm) HDip(TLHE) PhD MPSI
Dr Margaret Bermingham is a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork. She holds a BSc(Pharm) (Hons) and completed her PhD in Medicine with research into the pharmaceutical care of people with asymptomatic and symptomatic heart failure.
Margaret teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Pharmacy including the MPharm programme and the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy. She supervises research projects by undergraduate, Masters and PhD students.
Margaret’s research experience spans hospital, primary care, and long-term care settings and focuses on pharmaceutical care and medicines optimisation for people with chronic disease. Other research interests include factors affecting patient acceptability of medicines; medication safety; pharmacovigilance; and biosimilar medicines.
Dr Laura Sahm
Laura is Vice Dean of the School of Pharmacy and Acting Head of Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Since 2015, Laura is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Director of the MPharm Programme and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum Committee.
Dr Laura Sahm received a B.Sc. Pharm(Hons) from University of Brighton and won a scholarship from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) to pursue her postgraduate studies in the Grade 5A* Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath.
Dr Sahm obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics (Site-specific drug delivery of methotrexate to melanoma)in 1995. She moved to Germany in 1996 where she worked in community pharmacy, and for the pharmaceutical industry (Takeda GmbH).
In 2003 upon return from Germany Laura worked as a senior clinical pharmacist in the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork before joining the School of Pharmacy (SOP) staff in UCC in October of 2005. Her position up until 2015 was as a joint appointment between the SOP and the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) where she worked as a Consultant research pharmacist on research projects between UCC and the MUH. From 2018-2021, Laura was appointed to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) by Ministerial Appointment (Simon Harris TD) as a lay member of the Board. She has served as a member of the Education, Training and Standards Committee, Audit and Risk Committee as well as The Fitness to Practice Committee of the NMBI.
Total Career Publications:149; peer reviewed: 60 Total Citations: 1671 h-index:24 ( Source Google Scholar 07/07/2022)
Dr Sean MacBride-Stewart
Medicines Management Resources Lead, Prescribing and Pharmacy Support Unit,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Sean supports the Lead Clinician Prescribing Services in the strategic development of medicines management in primary care to manage the £240mill GP practice prescribing budget in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Mr Richard Boldero
Senior Pharmacist
Richard is a senior pharmacist working for the Welsh Analytical Prescribing Support Unit at the All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre in Cardiff. He currently has a number of specialist interest areas including prescribing data, analytics and sustainability. Prior to his current role he was an associate course director for the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy at Cardiff University. Previous to that he was a highly specialist clinical pharmacist and lead tutor for pre-registration pharmacists at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, South Wales. Richard has an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy, a non-medical prescribing qualification and is a registered Managing Successful Programmes practitioner.
Graham Prestwich
Following a career in the medicines industry and 3 years as Programme Manager in the NHS Graham joined the Board of NHS Leeds North Clinical Commissioning Group – Lay Member for Patient and Public Involvement, until March 2018. During that time he chaired the Patient Assurance Group, Primary Care Commissioning Committee and Remuneration and Nominations Committee. Graham also contributed as the Lay Member to various groups including the Leeds Area Prescribing Committee the Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee, the National AHSN Medicines Optimisation Programme Board and the HEE School Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Board.
Graham is currently the Lead for Patient and Public Involvement at the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network and this includes promoting the ‘Me and My Medicines’ campaign. Graham supports and encourages people to become authentically involved in all aspects of health and wellbeing, from national policy development through to individual care with an emphasis on innovation, research, mental health, sharing information, and the effective and safe use of medicines.
Dr Douglas Steinke
PRIMM committee member, Doug is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacoepidemiology and originally from Winnipeg, Canada. A pharmacist who has worked in pharmacoepidemiology and health services research for over 20 years, with expertise in using quantitative methodologies to investigate the impact of medicines on pharmacy practice and patient outcomes. As well as undertaking research, I lead on teaching applied pharmacy practice research methods at the University of Manchester to undergraduate pharmacy students and postgraduate clinical pharmacists. I have presented internationally to audiences of practitioners and educators, drawing on my research in drug utilisation, and theoretically-informed methodologies for evaluating medication and practice.
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Administrator: Jo Stuttle
Email: primmad17@gmail.com